Once we activated three radio towers in Far Cry 3, the blessed Recurve Bow was ours. Jason Bro-dy had a long time to wait until Act III for the wing-suit, but that gave us all plenty of time to practice our ground-level strategy. Step one find high ground. Step two pickem off one by one. Because the AI is so adept, Far Cry 3s super-satisfying, single-shot kills didnt ever make things feel too easy they make you feel genuinely dangerous. Enemy-base infiltrations never go down the same way twice, and when we take them all down without anyone seeing a thing, we use a combination of silenced pistols, stealth takedowns and some sweet, long-distance archery. Of course, we we could just run in bows-blazing, and we do that too. A flaming arrow will light a man on fire, but just one well-placed shot will light the grass up too... and all his friends with it. Remember, Far Cry has the most realistic fire-spreading in the industry. An explosive arrow achieves a similar effect, but with more jeeps blowing off the road and pirates flipping like dead gymnasts. The Recurve may be fancy, military-grade and fiberglass, but Far Cry 3 does take you back to the bow's historical conception as a hunting tool, seeing players hunt and scavenge animal skins of every Rook Island variety, from tigers to wild boar, leopards, deer and bear even giant, laser-eyed lizards in the 80s-'tastic DLC, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.